You wouldn't think it after last weekend's "March for Our Lives," but it wasn't that long ago that thousands of high schoolers were walking around with guns. From the New York Post article, "When toting guns in high school was cool": “Even in New York City, virtually...
Chicago, Illinois, March 28, 2018 An armed suburban man with a concealed-carry license intervened in a 3-on-1 beating and robbery in River North yesterday evening, according to a witness and police. The victim was in the 700 block of North Clark around 8:30 p.m. when...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the facts about guns at school. (Tuesday, March 13, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM) Is repealing the Gun Free School Zone Act of 1990 a good idea to protect our kids in school? Or add revisions to the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Ligotti and Palermo on WROL in Boston about retired Justice John Paul Stevens op-ed in the New York Times proposing that we repeal the Second Amendment. (Friday, March 30, 2018, from 4:15 to 4:27 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Dana Loesch on her TV show Relentless about the relationship between illegal drugs and gun crime. (Friday, March 30, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:51 PM)
Mr. Johnson's Tweet is available here. Media Matters has a long history of distorting what people have written or said (also here). After pointing out that Hogg's attacks on others "has gone beyond any acceptable bounds of political discussion," the...
In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man's ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man's mother and a fireman. (If you don't mind increasing NBC's estimated number of people who...
After retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' op-ed in the New York Times calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment, Bret Baier's Special Report discussed the reaction to it and what it means. Stevens has only the second recent column in the New York Times,...
For those who were at the "March for Our Lives" event this past Saturday, there were lots of old people with grey hair and lots of middle age people, but relatively few who were high school age. Of course, we weren't able to see the whole crowd, nor did we really...
This is a news article by Maxim Lott at Fox News. It warns that the Obama administration program that banned people veterans who receive help on their finances from owning guns. The CPRC alerted Fox to these cases. . . . Under current policy, the Department of...
Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real problems with this approach. A Boston University School of...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece with David Clarke at the Washington Times. The piece starts this way. Democrats don’t seem to trust poor blacks with guns. It is something that we have seen since at least the end of the Civil War. Yet, it is poor blacks, who are the...